Like fire, our experiences as a disabled community hold many diverse facets and contradictions – creation and destruction, warmth and danger, clarity and chaos. Our art and writing can warm a room or burn down a barrier, and both are necessary. Some may call us too much, too intense, or too demanding, but fire does not apologize for its light. At Cinder Magazine we are building connections like kindling because fire, on its own, is brief. Fire needs others: fuel, breath, and space to grow. So do we. We are building a publication that keeps each other lit when the world tries to dim us, not only to endure but to illuminate a better path forward.